Think not that I am come to
destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For
verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall
in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Matthew 5:17-18)
Jesus never condemned the law
and the prophets, but He did condemn those who did not obey them. Because He
gave new commandments it does not follow that He abolished the old. Christ’s
explanation of them made them all the more searching. In His Sermon
on the Mount He carried the principles of the commandments beyond the mere
letter. He unfolded them and showed that they embraced more, that they are
positive as well as prohibitive.
The Old Testament closes with these
words: “Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in
Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments. Behold, I will send you
Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:
and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of
the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” Does
that look as if the law of Moses was becoming obsolete?
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